Improving the health care system can play a crucial role in the delivery of safe, cost effective patient care. Many governing bodies mandate quality improvement in healthcare. Quality improvement initiatives are a result of systems failure. A thorough investigation into the failure can reveal where and how the system can make improvements.…
Week Four Response to LaTorella Clearly, the impact of emergency surgeries affects the operating room (O.R.) budget, not secondary to supply expense, in addition, there is a cost to staff for emergent cases. There are numerous strategies to assist in budgeting for unanticipated surgical cases. The ability to assess trends based on emergency department (ED) volume and historical surgical volume that originated in the will assist the O.R. manager is calculating a projection for emergent surgical cases for the upcoming fiscal year (Baker & Baker, 2014). In addition, there are hospitals which have incorporated a dedicated O.R. for emergency procedures.…
Part 1B: Based on the physician reimbursements for several CPT codes on physician lookup function on CMS, there is a variation in Medicare payments that are provided at facility setting (inpatient, outpatient or ambulatory) to that of a non-facility setting (physician’s office). In most cases, the Medicare’s non-facility pricing is higher than the facility pricing; this difference in payments accounts for three aspects which are categorized into Relative Value Units (RVUs) under physician’s current procedural terminology (CPT) codes attributed. Components of RVUs that determine the amount paid for each procedure are Physician Work, Practice Expense and Practice Liability Expense/ malpractice expense. Taking cost involved to the provider for…
Mustary Akter Professor: Karah Newton URPN 370.500 December 02, 2016 The Quality and Transparency of Hospital Care To provide the best health care the United States, health care system is continuously undergoing through many changes in the system in order to increase the quality and transparency of the health care system. For this assignment, we needed to visit Leap Frog Group website to choose a city and a hospital in order to understand the quality rating of that hospitals. I chose the city college station because it is my hometown and the hospital that I chose to examine was CHI St. Joseph Health Regional-Bryan.…
Data for this study were derived from an AAOMS Outcomes Assessment Project study of anesthesia and third molar extractions in private practice oral and maxillofacial surgery offices. A randomly selected sample of 300 OMS were instructed to enter data on all eligible patients they treated during a one month period. This study has two study samples, a surgeon sample and subject sample. The surgeon sample was composed of OMSs randomly selected from the population of AAOMS members between June, 2011 and May, 2012, stratified by census regions (midwest, northeast, south, west).…
An analysis was carried out over the period of January 2014 to September 2015 to investigate the external factors affecting Crowsley NHS hospital Trust. The following factors were analysed Political Budget cut by 7% to bring down national debt Economical Budget constraint: the NHS as a whole is being expected to deliver cost reductions at the same time providing more services for patients Social The rising ageing population Technological New technologies have potential to bring in great benefits but is also costly thus…
As discussed in the previous assignment, the issue that has been examined is major decreases in Medicaid reimbursement. This posed challenges in the way that Boston Medical Center (BMC) surgical department delivers efficient care, specifically dealing with patients’ needs. Applying the SWOT analysis tool is significant for BMC’s surgery department to reduce costs and provide quality care. The SWOT analysis concept consists of strength, weakness, opportunities, and threats (Walston, 2014. p.182). Strength is the first level of the SWOT analysis.…
A. 1. Major risk factors identified are not enough existing resources for each service listed, Oncology, Orthopedic, and cardiovascular. There is rapid growth in disease processes and the aging population is living longer, but this hospital’s technology is not adequate for their community. The equipment for diagnosis must be updated to get faster results and adequate methods for treatment. All services identified the need for educating the community on prevention of disease process and life modification, with dieting, exercise, and smoking cessation.…
Should the NHS continue to provide unlimited free health care? The NHS was established in 1948; ever since Aneurin Bevan’s achievement, health care has been free at the point of delivery – instead of health insurance (like The United States), it is funded by the tax-payer. There is an extreme divide over social and economic values which dictate opinions over the NHS’s future. The skilled NHS will help you; the useless NHS won’t be able to afford to aid you.…
Nursing Shortage Nursing shortage is beginning to rise as a result of baby boomers retiring, the acuity of patient care admitted to the hospital, and nurses changing their profession as the result of being burnt out. The idea of nursing shortage in the clinical setting, can be associated with the risk of poor quality care rendered to the patient. As the quality of care rendered to the patient declines, the patient becomes at risk for hospital acquired pneumonia, decubitus, and urinary tract infection. Also, the nursing staff will be paid for overtimes and as a result this can affect the budget established by the organization. Insurance companies will not pay for hospital acquired pneumonia, decubitus and urinary tract infection.…
Teenage plastic surgery has been around for decades, but most recently the amount of teens getting cosmetic surgery has been increasing at an abnormal speed over the years. Today’s society focuses more on looks than anything else that should actually matter. Teenagers and young adults want to be the most beautiful because others make them feel self conscious of themselves. There are many other reasons to explain why the younger generation wants to reach high expectations for not only themselves but for others around them also. Although a lot of teens, both male and female, are very attractive these days, the less fortunate people who aren’t as beautiful or the people who have less self confidence are turning to cosmetic surgery, and increasing…
There I was, a young boy, waiting with my family in the hospital and the Surgical Assistant was taking care of my younger brother’s infected pre-auricular sinus. Ignorantly, I asked why he didn’t cut it open to relieve the pain quickly. The assistant replied, “That is the job of the surgeon.” I was fortunate enough to be allowed on to the surgical observation deck and was enthralled by what I saw.…
A person does not just decide whether they are able to pay for a surgery. If the hospital denies a person the medical treatment they need, there is a large chance it is going to hugely affect that person. Not everyone is able to pay for expensive treatments. Hospital fees are extremely…
Opportunity cost is defined as what must be given up in order to do or obtain something; the highest-valued alternative that must be foregone; for example, the opportunity cost of taking the final exam may be missing out on a trip to Bermuda (Getzen, 2013). The New Oxford American Dictionary defines it as "the loss of potential gain from other alternatives when one alternative is chosen. " Opportunity cost is a key concept in economics, and has been described as expressing "the basic relationship between scarcity and choice (Buchanan, 2008). Opportunity costs play a role in decision-making to ensure that scarce resources are utilized efficiently. Opportunity cost is not only monetary or financial but can be associated with loss of time, experiences…
Despite what many might think, a patient 's right to refuse medical treatment has a very important meaning in the lives of many. People who have medical complications must learn to work with doctors and or surgeons in hospitals. With having the right to refuse medical treatment patients feel as if they have more power over their own health and future. Even though surgeons are qualified in making medical treatment decisions, patients should have the right to refuse medical treatment options. Patients should have the right to consider all medical options based on risk factors, success and effectiveness, and their living-will.…